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Edmund Burke: Sometimes a calm and healing arbiter may be necessary; but he is to compose differences, not to give laws.

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Sometimes a calm and healing arbiter may be necessary; but he is to compose differences, not to give laws.
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Edmund Burke

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Burke emphasizes the role of a mediator in resolving conflicts rather than imposing rules.

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